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Tuesday, Jul 10, 2007, 5:05 pm

Kucinich has Sex Appeal?

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The 35 Percenters, named after the amount of registered voters that know who Dennis Kucinich is, made this parody accusing the complacent media of spending more time on the physical attributes of candidates than where they stand on the issues.

Kucinich, still too liberal for the mainstream, is the only Democratic candidate to have a consistent voting record on key issues. While other Democratic candidates vying for the presidency have waffled in their opposition to the war in Iraq, Kucinich has consistently condemned it. Furthermore, he's the only candidate to specifically endorse a universal single-payer healthcare bill, HR-676. In spite of all this, Kucinich isn’t surprised he’s behind in the polls, and he isn’t changing his opinions to get media support. Listen to what Kucinich and Jeff Cohen, the founder of FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, have to say about the media's negligence.

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Kucinich is a serious man with serious ideas. His ideas challenge the oil industry, the insurance industry and the rich who run this country. It should not be surprising that media that is owned by the upper class does not want us to take him seriously.

If he is to have any chance, the left media must take him seriously. They must introduce him in a serious way to Democratic Party primary voters.

The rest of the Democratic candidates simply represent a more liberal wing of the ruling class.

-----Posted by Richard Berg on 2007-07-28 04:00:00

Okay, so the American public is the laughing stock of the world for electing George Bush and God knows what will happen this time. But, I’d like to know how people can work together to effect change and break the stronghold that our corporate media holds on “democracy.”

Posted by sarah simmons on 2007-07-11 19:32:02

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